Publications of Lamson and
Note: The following printer, bookseller, or publisher lists are works in progress. They are generated from title page imprints and may reproduce false and misleading attributions or contain errors.
What does "printed by" mean? How to read the roles ascribed to people in the imprints.
In terms of the book trades, the lists below are sorted into up to four groups where: the person is designated in the imprint as having a single role:
- "printed by x"; or
- "sold by x"; or
- "printed for x" or "published by x";
or as having the seller and printer roles in combination, or an absence of the printer's name following "London: printed:" or "London: printed,":
- "printed and sold by x"; or "printed for and sold by x"; or "printed by and for x"; or "printed: and sold by x"; or "printed, and sold by x"; and so on.
On this last point, trade publishers may seem to have "printed" or "published" the work, though they did not own the copyright. The lists below reflect only the information on the imprint, except where ESTC provides extra information.
See also "The Meaning of the Imprint."
Printed by Lamson and
- By His Excellency John Sullivan, Esquire, president of the state of New-Hampshire. A proclamation, for a general thanksgiving. ... Thursday the twenty-third of November next, to be observed as a day of public and solemn thanksgiving ... Given at the Council-chamber at Exeter, this twenty-sixth day of September ... one thousand, seven hundred and eighty-six ... Exeter [N.H.]: Printed by Lamson and Ranlet, [1786]. ESTC No. W18311. Grub Street ID 327909.
Sold by Lamson and
- Dodsley, Robert. The oeconomy of human life, translated from an Indian manuscript, written by an ancient Bramin. To which is prefixed an account of the manner in which the said manuscript was discovered, in a letter from an English gentleman, now residing in China, to the Earl of ****[.]. Exeter [N.H.]: Printed and sold by Lamson and Ranlet, MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]. ESTC No. W36177. Grub Street ID 346872.